St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek MS 1394 Aldhelm "De metris et enigmatibus ac pedum regulis" (fragments) with 496. Zofingen, Stadtbibliothek Pa.32, flyleaf

Abstract

452. St. Gallen, StiftsbibliothekMS 1394 (ff. 121-122, 125-128)

Aldhelm "De metris et enigmatibus ac pedum regulis"

(fragments) with 496. Zofingen, Stadtbibliothek Pa.32, flyleaf

[Ker Suppl. 44, Gneuss-, Lowe 7.982]

HISTORY: Four folios from an otherwise lost late 8c copy of Aldhelm's "De metris et enigmatibus ac pedum regulis" are preserved, three in a collection of 8c-9c fragments taken from bindings assembled as MS 1394 by the early- l 9c St. Gall Bibliothekar Ildefons von Arx and one as the front flyleaf of the 9c St. Gall manuscript Zofingen, Stadtbibliothek P. 32 [496], a famous codex containing Isidore's "Etymologiae:' The leaves are arranged in St. Gall 1394 as pp. 121-122 and 125-128 (= Scherrer 1875: 460, no. IX of MS 1394), with an unrelated insular fragment intercalated as pp. 123-124 (= Scherrer, no. X). The fragments are in an A-S minuscule of the late 8c, copied in a continental center under A-S influence. The fragments of no. IX contain scratched OE glosses on p. 127 (Meritt 1961: 441, no. II). The Zofingen manuscript (q.v.), with its Aldhelm flyleaf, made its way from St. Gall to Bern to Zofingen as war plunder in the first quarter of the 18c. [Note: See the full description of Zofingen Pa.32 [496] at its place in the series. A digital facsimile of SG 1394 is now available on Codices Electronici Sangallenses <http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/1394/121/medium>; and in the same series Zofingen Pa. 32 <http:/ /www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/zos/pa0032/Iv/medium>.]